** watch future Linda Hall Library lectures live at new.livestream.com/lindahall ** The Science of Longevity, a Linda Hall Library Foundation Colloquium October 2-3, 2015, in the Linda Hall Library Main Reading Room About the presentation: Complicating the portrait of health and longevity today is the current medical model that approaches chronic degenerative diseases in much the same way communicable diseases were addressed more than a century ago—one at a time, as they arise. The underlying premise is that all diseases are treated as if they are independent of each other—with their own origin and etiology. The Longevity Dividend is an approach to public health based on a broader strategy of fostering health for all generations by developing a new horizontal model to health promotion and disease prevention. The speaker: S. Jay Olshansky is a professor in the School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work focuses on estimating the upper limits to human longevity and pursuing the scientific means to slow aging in people. Dr. Olshansky is the author, with Bruce Carnes, of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging. He received a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago. Video produces by The VideoWorks of Roeland Park, Kansas.

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